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This drill is right side of the body versus left side of the body.

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So I always like to talk about these spectrums, right, and how no two clubs are

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swung the

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same way, but there's some transfer and there's some things that work really

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well with the

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driver compared to there's some things that work really well with the wedges

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and the short

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clubs.

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So one of the concepts that I talk about with my students is right side of the

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body versus

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left side of the body.

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And basically the driver is going to be a little bit more right side or trail

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side for

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right hand golfer and the irons can get away with being a little bit more left

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side.

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So here's what I mean, if you imagine a line sticking straight out from your

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sternum, right,

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my hands can be anywhere either straight in front of that, kind of like so, or

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I could

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bring it all the way over here to the right side of my body, or I could bring

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it over

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here to the left side of the body.

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If my hands are in front of my chest and my body turns, that's not the same

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thing, that's

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all one reference where my hands are straight out in front of my chest.

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So for the most part at the top of the swing, the hands are going to be towards

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the right

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side of my body.

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For good iron play because I'm trying to hit down, because I want a somewhat

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steep angle

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of attack because my stance is narrower and I'm more on top of the golf ball,

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it works

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to get my hands more on the left side of the body or past that middle midline.

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Even if my body is rotating, it works really well to get that downward angle of

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attack

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if my hands are working more towards that left side of the body.

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More in this chop movement, kind of like that.

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Now when it comes to the driver, you will tend to see that the guys who have a

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better

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combination of distance and accuracy will hit the ball with it a little bit

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more on the

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right side of your body.

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And this is usually a challenging feeling for a lot of golfers, especially if

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they're

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more in this cast pattern.

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But basically, if I go up to the top of my swing, so if I go up to the top of

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my swing,

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clubs all the way on the right side of my body, I'm going to just kind of

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exaggerate

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this and almost Jim Furekett and bring it across like this.

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Now very good drivers of the golf ball are still going to have the club

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slightly behind

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that midline after impact.

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So I'll take a student and put them in this position and I'll say, okay, now I

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want you

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to take that position and just use your body to get that position just after

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impact.

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And now could you imagine creating speed and doing that or are you going to

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have to create

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speed by getting this back out in front of this?

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So when we're looking at driver, more on this right side of your body, more

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behind your

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body, kind of like that, almost at impact when we're talking about irons, more

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in front

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of your body or towards the left side of your body.

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When we're looking at kind of the mid irons, you can get away with either of

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them.

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But helping you see how these spectrums work will help you understand why you

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struggle

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with one particular aspect to your game and ultimately give you some strategies

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that you

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can use to train it.

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So if you're like most golfers and you struggle with needing the club to be out

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in front of

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your body in order to hit it, you can do 9-3s working on some of those leave

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the arm behind

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tic-tac-toe, some of those sequencing reference drills where basically the club

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's going to

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be well to the right side of my body and I'm just going to use my body rotation

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to get

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that relationship all the way to impact.

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From the down-the-line camera view, the way that that will tend to look will be

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a lot

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more body rotation.

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You'll be able to see that the sternum is pointing out there while the golfer

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is making

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contact, while with an iron, it will look a little bit more like the chest is

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more pointed

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just out in front of the golf ball and the arms will be a little bit straighter

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, kind

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of like that, versus like that.

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So it's a little bit in these difference in the positions, a little bit

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difference in

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the sequencing, but it can help you understand why you're either struggling

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with your short

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irons or you're struggling with your driver.

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If it's just struggling in the middle, this is not the concept video for that,

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but it

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would help you understand if you're struggling with one of the ends, either the

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longer clubs

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or the shorter clubs.

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This can be a very useful reference point for when you're adjusting your stock

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swing.